<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52895]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/117]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring,  He that made it did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60068]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring,  He that made it did refuse it:   And he that brought it would not use it,    And he that hath it doth now know     Whether he hath it yea or no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they go,   And mark our actions, good or bad, below:    The immortal spies with watchful care preside,     And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide:      They can reward with glory or with gold,       A power they by Divine permission hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye: I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have: And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing safe is only playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing safe is only playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to all those that we love, Here's a health to all those that love us,  Here's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to all those that we love, Here's a health to all those that love us,  Here's a health to all those that love them that love those   That love them that love those that love us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9079]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23039]]></link><description><![CDATA[There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill;  For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing.   To wander along by the wind-beaten hill.    But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion,     For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean,      Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion       He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9634]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aqueducts are off. The water I have in storage is what I've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aqueducts are off. The water I have in storage is what I've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are. The ground upon which good character rests is the very same ground from which man's work derives its value, namely, a mind wholly turned to God. Verily, if you were so minded, you might tread on a stone and it would be a more pious work than if you, simply for your own profit, were to receive the Body of the Lord and were wanting in spiritual detachment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52834]]></link><description><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before:  Making home sweeter and friends dearer:  Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul's victory:  Robbing death of its sting:  Robbing sin of its power Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25443</guid></item></channel></rss>